Biography and Current Research

Christian Gosvig Olesen (b. 1985) is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam affiliated with the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He holds a PhD degree in Media Studies (cum laude/with distinction) from the University of Amsterdam, an MA degree (cum laude/with distinction) in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam, and has studied film history and theory at the universities of Copenhagen and Bologna.

PhD Project (2012-2017)

Christian Olesen's PhD project Film History in the Making: Film Historiography, Digitised Archives and Digital Research Dispositifs (2012-2017), supervised by Professor of Heritage and Digital Culture Julia Noordegraaf, investigated the implications which digitization in film archives bears upon film historical research in primarily academic settings. It addressed the need for understanding the consequences of digitization for film historical methodology to develop a critical framework for evaluating and conceptualizing digital archives-based scholarship. From this point of departure, it produced both a historical account of digital film historical scholarship and suggestions for further developments of digital research methodology, discussing in a historical perspective, how the conception of film archives as a source of film history has developed - from the ”first wave” of scientific film archives founded in the 1910s, filmic appropriation art in the 1970s to scholarly Hyperkino presentations of silent cinema a century later.

Conference Papers

C.G. Olesen (2018, 3 may), “Perspectives on computer-assisted film style analysis in the MIMEHIST and SEMIA projects”, Workshop „Computer-based Approaches for the Analysis of Film Style”, ZeM, Potsdam.

C.G. OIesen (2014, April 3) "Film History 'in the Making': On Scholarly Practice and Film Historiography in the Digital Humanities Laboratory". Udine, Italy, XXI FilmForum International Film Studies Conference.

C.G.Olesen (2014, March 19) "From Film Historiography to Videography: Film Historical Video Essays as Scholarly Research Practice". Seattle, WA, USA, 55th annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).

2013

C.G. Olesen (2013, March 18). "Digitizing an "Aesthetic of Film History - Philosophy of Film History in EYE's Panorama". Gorizia, Italy, XI MAGIS - Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School, Universita degli studi di Udine.